Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 16:06:09 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Michael Gabriel <mdgabriel@hotmail.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: stumped at install Message-ID: <19980830160609.A606@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19980830055904.28307.qmail@hotmail.com>; from Michael Gabriel on Sat, Aug 29, 1998 at 10:59:03PM -0700 References: <19980830055904.28307.qmail@hotmail.com>
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On Saturday, 29 August 1998 at 22:59:03 -0700, Michael Gabriel wrote: > Dear Sirs, > I have recently acquired a copy of Freebsd 2.26. Only to be > disappointed and frustrated with the install. I have a cdrom and plenty > of disk space. When cued to alloted a certain amount of memory space > (minimum being as yous mention 20M) I'm at a loss as to "set" the > specifics. (ie. / , swap/ var) as required. It seems a hassle and I > don't want it to be so. Can you help. Sure. Let the install do it for you. But 20 MB is far too little; you'd need at least 200 to make a useful installation. Under 500 MB you probably *do* want to divide the disk yourself. For a small installation, take one file system (/) and as much swap space as you can spare. Probably 100 MB is adequate. For more details, see "The Complete FreeBSD", second edition (http://www.cdrom.com/titles/os/bsdbook2.htm). Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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